Sidwell Authors

Below is a list of material authored by the talented Sidwell alumni, faculty, and staff. It is by no means a complete list. If you know of any other talented Sidwell alumni and friends, please email alumni@sidwell.edu with your updates. The list is sorted by author's last name.

Jubana! : The Awkwardly True and Dazzling Adventures of a Jewish Cubana Goddess Men May Come and Men May Go...But I've Still Got My Little Pink Raincoat: Life and Love In and Out of My WardrobeBe Pretty, Get Married, and Always Drink Tab: A Memoir

Anne Applebaum '82

Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of EuropeGulag: A History

Nicholas Arons '94

Waiting for Rain

Andrew Aronson (former faculty member; married to Cynthia Eyster '72)

Catullus and HoraceLove and Betrayal: A Catullus ReaderSelections from Caesar's De Bello Gallico

Robert Ashton '47

This Old Man and the Sea: How my Retirement Turned into a Ten-Year Sail Around the World

damali ayo '90

How to Rent a NegroObamistan! Land Without Racism: Your Guide to the New America

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Amy Benesch '68

Into the Dreamlands

George L. Bernstein '64

Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England

Margaret Cobey Black '40

Hawaii Scandal

Ann Brashares '85

Linus Torvalds: Software RebelThe Second Summer of the SisterhoodThe Sisterhood of the Traveling PantsSteve Jobs: Think Different Willows, The Sisterhood Grows

Joel Brinkley '71

The Circus Master's MissionDefining Vision: The Battle for the Future of TelevisionIsrael: The Historical Atlas: The Story of Israel from Ancient Times to the Modern NationU.S. v. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land

Christopher Leslie Brown '86

Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (UCH Press, 2006)

Ralph Bryant (former Chair of Board of Trustees and former parent)

Controlling Money: The Federal Reserve and Its CriticsEmpirical Macroeconomics for Interdependent EconomiesEvaluating Policy Regimes: New Research in Empirical MacroeconomicsExternal Deficits and the Dollar: The Pit and the PendulumFinancial Interdependence and Variability in Exchange Rates: A Staff PaperGlobal Macroeconomics: Policy Conflict and CooperationInternational Coordination of National Stabilization PoliciesInternational Financial IntermediationMacroeconomic Policies in an Interdependent WorldMoney and Monetary Policy in Interdependent NationsNotes on the Analysis of Capital Flows to Developing Nations and the Recycling Problem

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Andrew Carroll '88

101 Great American Poems (introduction by Andrew Carroll)Golden Opportunities: A Volunteer Guide for Americans Over 50In Our Own Words: Extraordinary Speeches of the American Century (edited by Andrew Carroll)Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American LettersVolunteer USAWar Letters : Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

John Case (pseudonym for Carolyn and Jim Hougan, parents of Matthew Hougan '94)

The First HorsemanThe Genesis CodeThe Syndrome: A Thriller

Princess Setsuko Chichibu '28 (from Japan; deceased)

The Silver Drum: A Japanese Imperial Memoir

Jan Wolfle Christophersen '53

A Journey to HopeCircles of Love

Helen Austern Colson '53

Philanthropy at Independent Schools

Trevor C. Corson '87

The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite CrustaceanXin: Letters from China The Zen of Fish: The story of sushi, from samurai to supermarket

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John Dickerson '87

On Her Trail

John Dos Passos (attended SFS 1902-1903)

Adventures of a Young ManAfterglow and Other Undergraduate Writings (Archive of Literary Documents, I)The American Lawyer: As He Was - As He Is He Can BeThe Best Times: An Informal MemoirThe BombBrazil on the MoveCentury's Ebb: The Thirteenth ChronicleChosen CountryCommercial Trusts: The Growth and Rights of Aggregated Capital, an Argument Delivered Before the Industrial Commission at Washington DCDistrict of ColumbiaEaster Island; Island of the EnigmasFacing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreign Born Workmen (Civil Liberties in American History)First EncounterThe Forty Second ParallelGrand DesignThe Ground We Stand OnJohn Dos Passos (Twayne's United States Author Series)John Dos Passos: A Twentieth-Century OdysseyJohn Dos Passos' Correspondence with Arthur K. McComb or 'Learn to Sing the Carmagnole'Journeys Between WarsLa Grosse GaletteManhattan TransferMen Who Made the NationMidcenturyMr. Wilson's WarNumber OneOne Man's Initiation: 1917, a NovelOrient ExpressThe Portugal StoryThe Prospect Before UsThe Shackles of Power: Three Jeffersonian DecadesState of the NationStreets of NightTheme is FreedomThomas Jefferson: the Making of a PresidentThree SoldiersTour of DutyUSA: The 42nd Parallel/1919/The Big MoneyThe 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the USA Trilogy1919: Volume Two of the USA TrilogyThe Big Money: Volume Three of the USA Trilogy

Brett Dakin '94

Another Quiet American: Stories of Life in Laos

Brandel France de Bravo '78

Trees Make the Best Mobiles: Simple Ways to Raise Your Child in a Complex World (with Jessica Teich)

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Willoughby Deming '74

Re-thinking Religion: A Concise Introduction

Liza Donnelly '73

Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists and their Cartoons |Cartoon Marriage Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker's Cartooning Couple

John Dickerson '87

On Her Trail

Diana Lady Dougan '60

Arab and Muslim Countries: Profiles in Translation

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Peggy Eastman '60

Godly Glimpses: Discoveries of the Love That Heals

Alice Echols '69

Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75Demise of Female Intimacy in the Nineteenth CenturyScars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin

Amen, Moses GardeniaThe Stainless Steel RuleInvincible SummerLooking For HomeAcross The GrainRelative StrangersSigns of LifeAll That GlittersBadOf Sound MindUndergroundInto The WindSong of The SeaWeather The StormLove Among The WalnutsEight SecondsMuch Ado About GrubstakeOnce Upon A MarigoldTwice Upon A Marigold

Susannah Terrell French '84

Operation Redwood

Francois Furstenberg '90

In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation

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Michael Gallant '99

Getting the Most from Study Abroad (Students Helping Students)

John Rolfe Gardiner '55

Going on Like ThisGreat Dreams From HeavenIn the Heart of the Whole WorldThe Incubator Ballroom: A Novella and Four StoriesThe Magellan HouseSomewhere in FranceUnknown Soldiers

A Race of Singers: Whitman's Working Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen

Olivia Gentile '92

Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds

James K. Glassman '65

Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market (Authors James K. Glassman and Kevin A. Hassett)The Secret Code of the Superior Investor: How to Be a Long-Term Winner in a Short-Term World

Catherine O'Neill Grace '68

1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving (with Margaret Bruchac)Amazing Mysteries of the WorldBest Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children (with Michael Thompson and Lawrence Cohen)Computers, Those Amazing MachinesThe Daffodil FarmerDogs on DutyHow & Why: A Kids' Book About the BodyI Want to be an AstronautI Want to be a ChefI Want to be a DancerI Want to be an EngineerI Want to be an EnvironmentalistI Want to be a FirefighterI Want to be a Fashion DesignerI Want to be a VeterinarianNatural Wonders of North AmericaYou Won't Believe Your EyesMayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim VoyageThe White House: An Illustrated HistoryThe Daffodil Farmer (poems)

The Confederacy Is on Her Way Up the Spout: Letters to South Carolina, 1861-1864

Sharon Smull Hinckley '63

Watercolor Basics: Painting Flowers

Ellen Evert Hopman

Priestess of the Forest: A Druid JourneyBeing a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans, and Witches Today People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak OutWalking the World in Wonder - A Children's A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year Tree Medicine-Tree Magic

Tony Horwitz '76

Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in ArabiaBlue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone BeforeConfederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil WarThe Devil May Care: Fifty Intrepid Americans and Their Quest for the UnknownOne for the Road: An Outback AdventureOne for the Road: Hitchhiking Through the Australian Outback (Edited by Pat Mulcahy)James R. (Randy) Hostetler '81Happily Ever AfterTell Me Where is Fancy Bred (musical composition)

Caroline Hougan (parent of Matthew Hougan '94)

Blood RelativeThe Romeo FlagShooting in the Dark

Jim Hougan (parent of Matthew Hougan '94)

Decadence: Racial Nostalgia, Narcissism, and Decline in the SeventiesKingdom ComeSecret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIASpooks: The Haunting of America: The Private Use of Secret Agents

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Xiao-bin Ji '85

Politics and Conservatism in Northern Song China: The Career and Thought of Sima Guang

Greg Jones '87

Beyond Da Vinci

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Julie Silard Kantor '87

I Said Yes!

John Katzenbach '68

Day of ReckoningFirst Born: The Death of Arnold Zeleznik, Age Nine: Murder, Madness, and What Comes AfterHart's WarIn the Heat of SummerJust CauseThe Mean SeasonThe Shadow ManState of MindThe Traveler

Alexander Levering Kern ‘89 (editor)

Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations

Philip S. Khoury '67

French Imperialism in Syria, 1927-1936 (with Peter A. Shambrook)The Modern Middle East: A Reader (Ed. with Albert Hourani and Mary C. Wilson)Recovering Beirut: Urban Design and Post-War Reconstruction (Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East, Vol. 47) (Samir Khalaf, Editor)Syria and the French Mandate: The Politics of Arab Nationalism 1920-1945 (Princeton Studies on the Near East)Tribes and State Formation in the Middle East (Also edited by Joseph Kostiner.)Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism: The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920

Wendy Kline '87

Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby BoomBuilding a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom

Christopher Allan Knowles '67

Murder in Martha's Vineyard Lodge: A Masonic AllegoryMurder in Sugarbush Lodge: A Study in Brotherhood A Matter of PerceptionMurder in Georgetown Lodge: Prelude to Armageddon

1999: Victory Without WarChina Calls: Paving the Way for Nixon's Historic Journey to ChinaI Want to Make One Thing Perfectly Clear; The Illuminations of Richard M. NixonLeadersNixon: The First Year of His PresidencyNixon: The Second Year of His PresidencyNixon: The Fourth Year of His PresidencyNo More VietnamsThe Poetry of Richard Milhous NixonReal PeaceThe Real WarRichard M. Nixon: 37th President of the United States (Presidents of the UnitedStates) RN: The Memoirs of Richard NixonSeize the Moment: America's Challenge in a One Superpower WorldThe Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1,000 Quotations and Anecdotes (James C. Humes, Richard M. Nixon (Foreword))

Bill Nye '73

Bill Nye, The Science Guy's Big Blast of Science

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Karen Olsson '90

Waterloo

K. K. Ottesen '89

Great Americans

George Ovitt (former faculty for ten years)

The Restoration of Perfection: Labor and Technology in Medieval Culture

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Ben "Todd" Parnell III '65

Mom at WarPostcards from BransonThe Buffalo, Ben and Me

Carol F. Peck '91

From Deep Within: Poetry Workshops in Nursing Homes

Sara Elise Phang '89

The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C.-A.D. 235): Law and Family in the Imperial Army

Dan Pinck '42

Journey to Peking: A Secret Agent in Wartime China

Gautam Prakash '87

The Insider's Guide to Management Consulting: Opportunities for Undergraduates

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Dan I. Rather (father of Dawn Rather '76 and Daniel M Rather '78)

The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television JournalistDeadlines and Datelines

Nancy Reagan (attended SFS 1925-28)

How Should the War on Drugs be Waged (Opposing Viewpoints)I Love You, RonnieMy Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy ReaganNancyRonald Reagan: The Great Communicator (Introduction by Nancy Reagan)A Shining City: The Legacy of Ronald Reagan (Ronald Reagan, et al.)To Love a Child

Beat of a Different Drum: The Untold Stories of African Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life (2006)

John F. Ross '77

Living Dangerously: Navigating the Risks of Everyday LifeThe Polar Bear Strategy: Reflections on Risk in Modern Life

Jay Roudebush (faculty member)

Mary Cassatt

Joanna Stratton Roze '72

Pioneer Women, Voices from the Kansas Frontier

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Cheryl J. Sanders '71

Cheryl J. Sanders '71 Living the Intersection: Womanism and Afrocentrism in TheologyMinistry at the MarginsSaints in Exile

Susan Richards Shreve '57

Ann Dunn Quits SchoolThe Bad Dreams of a Good GirlBlisterChildren of PowerA Country of StrangersDreaming of HeroesFamily Secrets: Five Very Important SeriesThe Flunking of Joshua T. BatesThe Formerly Great Alexander FamilyA Fortunate MadnessGoalieGhost CatsThe Gift of the Girl Who Couldn't HearGoodbye, Amanda the GoodHow I Saved the World on PurposeHow We Want to Live: Narratives on Progress (editor)Jonah the WhaleJoshua T. Bates Takes ChargeJoshua T. Bates In Trouble AgainLoveletters: A NovelLucy Forever and Miss Rosetree, ShrinksLucy Forever, Miss Rosetree, and the Stolen BabyThe Masquerade: A NovelMiracle PlayThe Nightmares of Geranium StreetOutside the Law: Narratives on Justice in AmericaPlum and JaggersQueen of HeartsSkin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About RaceA Student of Living ThingsTales Out of School: Contemporary Writers on Their Student YearsThe Train HomeThe Visiting PhysicianWait for MeWarm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR’s Polio Haven (forthcoming)WartsWill of Their OwnA Woman Like ThatZoe and Columbo

Robert Lawrence Smith (former Head of School, 1965-1978)

A Quaker Book of Wisdom: Life Lessons in Simplicity, Service, and Common Sense

The Recollections of Eugene P. WignerHave No Fear: the Charles Evers Story

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Alden Todd '35

Minding the Money: A Practical Guide for Volunteer Treasurers

Baratunde R. Thurston '95

Better Than Crying: Poking Fun at Politics, the Press, & Pop Culture

Adam Trachtenberg '93

PHP CookbookUpgrading to PHP 5

Barbara Taeusch Tufty '41

1001 Questions About Storms1001 Questions Answered About Natural Land DisastersCells: Units of LifeFinding Wildflowers in the Washington-Baltimore Area

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Edward Ugel '90

Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions

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Gore Vidal '43 (left in 1936)

1876: A NovelAmerica First!: Its History, Culture, and PoliticsThe American PresidencyAt Home: Essays, 1982-1988The Best ManThe Best of the Nation: Selections from the Independent Magazine of Politics and Culture (Victor Navasky, ed., et al)BurrThe City and the PillarCollected Essays, 1952-1972Collected Stories, 1939-1976 (Introduction by Vidal)Confessions of an Art Addict: A Memoir (Peggy Guggenheim, et al.)CreationDangerous VoyageDark Green, Bright Red (Verde Oscuro, Rojo Vivo)Decline and Fall of the American EmpireDeadly SinsDeath Before BedtimeDeath in the Fifth PositionDeath Likes It HotDreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush JuntaDuluthEmpireThe Essential Gore Vidal: A Gore Vidal ReaderAn Evening with Richard NixonFollowing the Equator and Anti-Imperialist Essays; A Journey Around the World and Anti-Imperialist Essays, 1897, 1901, 1905 (Introduction by Gore Vidal)The Golden AgeThe Golden Bowl (Introduction by Vidal)Gore Vidal, 1876Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex WritingsGreat American FamiliesHollywood: A Novel of America in the 1920sHomage to Daniel Shays; Collected Essays, 1952-1972Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, JeffersonThe Invention of HeterosexualityThe Judgement of ParisJulianKalkiLincolnLive from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore VidalMatters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays 1973-1976MessiahMoney and Politics: Financing Our Elections Democratically (David Donnelly, et al.)Myra Breckinridge and MyronMyron: A NovelThe Norton Book of American Autobiography (Preface by Gore Vidal)Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham, et al.)Palimpsest: A MemoirReflections Upon a Sinking ShipRomulusScreening HistorySearch for the KingSecond American Revolution and Other EssaysSelected Speeches and Writings (The Library of America) (Introduction by Gore Vidal)The Smithsonian InstitutionTarzan of the Apes (Introduction by Gore Vidal)A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short StoriesThree by Box: The Complete Mysteries of Edgar BoxTwo SistersUna MemoriaUnited States: Essays: 1952-1992Vidal in VeniceViews from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal (Bob Stanton and Gore Vidal)Visit to a Small Planet and Other Television PlaysWashington DC: A NovelWeekendWhere Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader (Christopher Isherwood, et al.)Williwaw